This BS is too deep for my boots! President Bush finally flew over the hurricane ravaged city of New Orleans. The coverage of the president's visit was the quintessential photo opportunity. It appears that some of the relief efforts the President witnessed were staged for the cameras that accompanied him as he flew over our beloved New Orleans.(See article below.) Once again we have been hoodwinked, bamboozled and led astray.
President Bush took a break from his vacation to see what the rest of America has been watching for a week. The president's visit was long overdue and it seems that the federal government's excuse is that it was not aware of how desperate the situation was in New Orleans. Where was the President? Didn't he see the raw footage the rest of the country was seeing from every news program in the country? People in Europe have even questioned our government's response to this disaster.
It seems that our President has always had his own personal agenda. It seems that if you are not a supporter of his policies, you lose rights. If you are poor, you must fend for yourself because assistance is almost nonesixtent in realistic terms. If you are of color and poor, you're doomed. The only people of color President Bush is interested in are those who can help him change policy and are not afraid to destroy their own integrity. The rich are getting richer and the poor are being raped of their dignity. All of this from a man who stole not one, but two elections while our other elected leaders stood by in fear of losing their positions of authority.

It is NOT going to get better, the leadership of our president is lacking and he is setting a poor example for future leaders to come. At this rate, those of us whom value the civil rights we have left will either have to take a stand at the voting booth (HAHAHA), or face the possibilities of less positive events which tend to occur when people are oppressed. We should impeach this man. Afterall, his lies are far worse than the lies Clinton told.

How can our country be considered a "world power" when we cannot even protect our own? How can we monitor another country's elections when we cannot monitor our own? How can Bush preach morality to someone else when his sense of morality has a direct connection to his wallet? Our president is using this country's highest office as a cash cow for his "base." Our troops overseas are fighting a war waged by our president for his own personal gratification. Bush will not institute a draft because he does not want to draw anymore attention to his "service record" or to the fact that his inner circle have not served at all. The contracts "handed out" for the rebuilding of Iraq have come under fire for not being handled properly. No one still has any idea whom Bush has "yet" to deal with for the outing of the CIA agent's identity months ago. (Didn't Mr. Bush vow to fire the culprit? Who became the sacrificial lamb? Or has it been swept under the rug while we weren't looking?) Clinton's administration had worked to bring our budget into control. Bush's war and his other political agendas have destroyed the country's finances. Many of the rights we were guaranteed by the Constitution have been trampled by the Patriot Act. Our Country is in need of help and our people are in need of help. We're building a democracy in another part of the world but democracy here at home is ebbing away.


Are not the events that are unfolding in front of us at this moment not that dissimilar from those that begat this great nation in the first place?

Landrieu Blasts Bush on Katrina Response
by Mike Liddell Sat Sep 3rd, 2005 at 07:05:42 PM ESTU.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., issued the following statement this afternoon regarding her call yesterday for President Bush to appoint a cabinet-level official to oversee Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery efforts within 24 hours.
Sen. Landrieu said:
“Yesterday, I was hoping President Bush would come away from his tour of the regional devastation triggered by Hurricane Katrina with a new understanding for the magnitude of the suffering and for the abject failures of the current Federal Emergency Management Agency. 24 hours later, the President has yet to answer my call for a cabinet-level official to lead our efforts. Meanwhile, FEMA, now a shell of what it once was, continues to be overwhelmed by the task at hand.
“I understand that the U.S. Forest Service had water-tanker aircraft available to help douse the fires raging on our riverfront, but FEMA has yet to accept the aid. When Amtrak offered trains to evacuate significant numbers of victims – far more efficiently than buses – FEMA again dragged its feet. Offers of medicine, communications equipment and other desperately needed items continue to flow in, only to be ignored by the agency.
“But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast – black and white, rich and poor, young and old – deserve far better from their national government.
“Mr. President, I’m imploring you once again to get a cabinet-level official stood up as soon as possible to get this entire operation moving forward regionwide with all the resources – military and otherwise – necessary to relieve the unmitigated suffering and economic damage that is unfolding.”
TodayÂ’s aerial tour of the 17th Street levee will be featured tomorrow on ABCÂ’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Later, Sen. Landrieu will also appear on CBSÂ’s 60 Minutes.

Dutch viewer Frank Tiggelaar writes:
There was a striking dicrepancy between the CNN International report on the Bush visit to the New Orleans disaster zone, yesterday, and reports of the same event by German TV.
ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged event. Their crew witnessed how the open air food distribution point Bush visited in front of the cameras was torn down immediately after the president and the herd of 'news people' had left and that others which were allegedly being set up were abandoned at the same time.
The people in the area were once again left to fend for themselves, said ZDF.